“To Labor for the Hive”
| Title | “To Labor for the Hive” |
| Year for Search | 2024 |
| Authors | Liu, Jamie |
| Secondary Title | Grist/Imagine2200 2024 |
| Date Published | January 20, 2024 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help. |
| URL | https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-to-labor-for-the-hive/ |
| Info Notes | First place prize winner in the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest. |
| Illustration | Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer |
| Author Note | Female author |
| Full Text | 2024 Liu, Jamie. “To Labor for the Hive.” Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer. Grist/Imagine2200 2024 (January 20, 2024). https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-to-labor-for-the-hive/ The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help. First place prize winner in the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest. Female author. |
